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Doctor on the go

Nebraskan heads healing missions

The line forms early every day that Stuart
Embury and his team are in Haiti. For nearly three decades children,
adults and the elderly, many of whom might have died without surgery or
specialized medical care, have been served by the annual trip of this
physician.

A member of Bethel
Lutheran Church, Holdredge, Neb., Embury is reticent to speak about the
work he's done and what it has meant to a country in need. But it
hasn't gone unnoticed.

Embury received the national Humanitarian
Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents
more than 93,000 doctors and medical students nationwide.

"It
came as quite a surprise," said Embury, afamily practice physician at
Family Medical Specialties in Holdredge and head of the medical staff
at Phelps Memorial Health Center.

His mission work began with a trip to the island of St. Lucia soon after he finished medical school.